The recently reached accords actually push projects that the companies had originally planned for the first half of 2016 to the second half. Only seven weeks after British voters elected to leave the European Union, the bloc has begun to fracture along regional lines. Monetary policy traditionally has involved adjusting a short-term rate of interest that can then, over time, affect the structure of long-term rates that are set by markets. With so many people focused on the Dow and the Nasdaq hitting new all-time highs, many investors around the world haven’t noticed that the price of gold is having its biggest year since the historic spike in 1980.
Lets start off by taking an indepth look at the INDU as a proxy for the other US stock markets. The next rally phase took out the previous high by 200 points up to 18,167 where the next decline began, but this time the bears could only push the price action down to the 17,330 area which looked like it might be an important low.
The world’s billionaires have shifted into stockpiling an average of 22% of their income in cash because they are terrified the economy could crash. Many of these people literally helped to build the system we all now rely upon, and now they are holding cash, gold and other assets our of fear that stocks will crash and digital instruments of wealth could be undermined, compromised or have their balance destroyed. The FTSE 100 smashed 6,900 for the first time this year in afternoon trade, enjoying its highest close in more than 14 months.
Despite spending much of the day in negative territory a late surge in oil prices and a flurry of M&A chatter helped the blue chip index touch a fresh 2016 high.
I had just recited “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost in a giant auditorium in Mumbai, India. After five years of a brutal bear market, gold and gold miners are finally having a huge rebound, and investor Chen Lin, writer of the popular newsletter What is Chen Buying? Gold and gold miners are finally having a huge rebound after five years of a brutal bear market, and we are having a spectacular year so far.
Normally, when one asset class is expensive others are cheap, making it reasonably easy to use historical relationships to decide where to invest.

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One of my regular readers has raised the important subject of Say’s law, the denial of which both Keynesian and modern monetarists are emphatic.
They need this fundamental axiom to be untrue to justify state stimulation of aggregate demand.
The basis of post-Keynesian economic stimulation assumes a breakdown between consumption and production can occur, and the correct response is for government to step in and revive failing demand. This article revisits this subject, explains where Keynes went wrong, redefines the law to include money as a good, and explains why supply-side is less destructive than demand management. Many a-list celebs have tones of fame but their fortunes are small potatoes compared to these folks, the billionaires.
The story of millionaire Simon Cowell, who dropped out of school at 15, worked for Sony BMG and EMI Music. Our roundtable guests talk about their roles as agents and being acknowledged by their clients. The world knows Valeria Lukyanova as the girl who turned herself into a real-life Barbie doll.
According to Greek media reports, the government in Athens is attempting to organize a summit of Southern European countries in early September, just days before a scheduled EU-wide conference in Bratislava. But central banks’ bond purchases and ultralow interest rates mean that distortions are rife. Either Say’s law is right and state intervention is economically disruptive, or if it’s wrong modern economists are right to ignore it and progress their science beyond it. So far, Greece has sent invitations to the leaders of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta. A very strong rally ensued which took the INDU up to the 17,975 area where it topped out and began another strong decline.

Meanwhile, the pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 index erased all of its post-Brexit losses, rising 0.8pc. He highlights nearly a dozen mining companies that have weathered the downturn and are in position to ride the wave higher.
Prices for imports have not recorded a monthly decrease over the past 5 months and increased 3.0 percent since last declining in February. Every major asset class, including stocks, bonds and even precious metals, are looking at best temporarily overbought by past standards, and at worst (in the case of stocks and bonds), wildly overvalued.
NO MATERIAL HERE CONSTITUTES "INVESTMENT ADVICE" NOR IS IT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO STOCKS, COMMODITIES, OPTIONS, BONDS, OR FUTURES.
In fact, investment demand for gold has now surpassed jewelry demand for the first time in history. This next decline ended in the same area as the August 2015 low and formed a double bottom which is a reversal pattern. In the meantime we have some Federal Reserve officials signaling that more interest rate hikes are coming up. ACTIONS YOU UNDERTAKE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF ANY ANALYSIS, OPINION OR ADVERTISEMENT ON THIS SITE ARE YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY. Despite the recent increases, import prices remain down on an over-the-year basis, falling 3.7 percent over the past 12 months.
Import prices have not recorded a 12-month advance since 2 years ago when the index rose 0.9 percent between July 2013 and July 2014.